Key: C major
Verse 1
for now I must leave you
To the far- off West Indies
I'm bound for to steer
But let my long journey be
of no trouble to you
For my love, I'll return in the
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course of a year"
Verse 2
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"Talk not of leaving me here,
lovely Jimmy
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Talk not of leaving me
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here on the shore
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You know very well your long
As you sail the wild ocean where
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the wild billows roar
Verse 3
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I'll cut off my ringlets
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a young cabin boy
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And when we are out on that dark,
rolling ocean
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my pride and my joy"
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"Your
Verse 4
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they could not handle the cables
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top mast could not go
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And the cold winter storms,
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well, you could not endure them
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where the the wild winds won't blow"
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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As Jimmy set a- sailing,
The tears from her eyes in great
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torrents did a- flow
oh her hands she was wringing
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Crying, "Oh and alas,
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will I e'er see you more?"
Verse 6
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As Jimmy was a- walking on
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they filled him with pride
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He said, "Nancy, lovely Nancy,
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if I had you here, love
Verse 7
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So Jimmy wrote a letter to
Saying, "If you have proved constant,
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well, I will prove true"
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Oh but Nancy was dying,
Oh the day that he left her,
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forever he'd rue
Verse 8
I pray, take a warning
And don't trust a sailor
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boy or any of his kind
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For first they will court you and
For their love, it is tempestuous
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